This interesting article discusses the use of Twitter by teachers. As the author says, "[h]aving done some digging around, former English teacher Tom Whitby makes a 'calculated guess' that only about 200-300,000 teachers are on Twitter—a relatively small number if you consider that, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are roughly 4 million K-12 teachers in the U.S."
I know that I created a Twitter account several months ago. I have three followers, two I don't know and one is my wife, and I haven't actually tweeted anything. I have retweeted, but not much. If teachers want to use this online resource in education, I believe it is something that could be very valuable.
Rebora, Anthony. Are There Too Few Teachers on Twitter? (2013, July) Education Week. Retrieved from: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2013/07/are_there_too_few_teachers_on_twitter.html
I think a lot of why teachers don't have a twitter is because the generation of people who are teachers today did not grow up with social media and the idea of posting exactly what you're doing when you're doing it -- and we find it a little -- strange to do so.
ReplyDeleteI agree though, we need to explore the idea of making it useful for education.
I agree with your assessment and I wonder in what ways our teachers thought we were strange.
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